Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Spex appeal

One of the consequences of getting older is facing the inevitability of a certain choice:you either get much longer arms ...... or you get reading glasses.

I'm not vain but I can be quite lazy so I chose the latter rather than shift all my long-sleeve clothes to the summer end of the wardrobe.

In fact, I'm so 'not vain' that if I'm reading outdoors I wear my shades and my glasses.(Another consequence of getting older is that you don't care so much about looking ridiculous.)

But there are disadvantages.I don't lose my glasses that often but I do have an irritating tendency to lose the case.You can hang your glasses round your neck on a chain, but you'd look really stupid if you did that with the case.And where would you stop?Keys? Wallet? Tissues? Bottle of water?All ending up dangling from your neck?You'd end up with a season ticket to the osteopath ...

A friend of mine has one of those chain things and also keeps a spare pair of glasses at work.Trouble is, whenever she uses them she forgets they're not the ones on the chain and spends the day flinging them on the floor.

More often than not, I shove mine on top of my head and only occasionally forget they're there.

Last night I was saying goodnight to da boyz.As I kissed and cuddled LG on the bottom bunk, my glasses tumbled from my head.Somehow they shot behind his pillow and through the tiny gap between bed and wall.

What you have to bear in mind is that their room is cluttered.Very cluttered.Every square inch is taken up.If you want to move anything of significance you have to shift everything in the entire room.

Suffice to say, it was over half an hour later when their light was eventually switched off and my specs, with new must-have cobweb accessories (it's the latest thing, darling) were returned to their rightful place on my nose.

In summer, Top Bloke has always worn his sunglasses on his head when indoors, so he doesn't lose them. He has recently added reading glasses into the equation, so can often be found at the computer or reclining on the sofa, reading glasses on nose - and sunglasses still on head. It's his Professor Branestawm look (blimey I AM old!).